Re: Why Cannot open termcap databases file?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.01.2006 um 21:51 schrieb Peter Djalaliev:

> I saw some messages to forums onlnie about converting between termcap
> and terminfo files.  What are they, which one do I need?

termcap is the system coming from BSD. terminfo is SysV, its files  
can be found in /usr/share/terminfo. The termcap entries are ASCII,  
terminfo is binary, compiled. tic, tack, toe, captoinfo, infotocap  
are binaries from terminfo. You can try an 'apropos terminfo' ...

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